Harold Massingham
Harold W. Massingham (b.25 October 1932 Mexborough d.13 March 2011) was a British poet.
Life
He is the son of H. W. Massingham (a collier from Mexborough). He attended the same Mexborough Grammar School as the Yorkshire poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes but in a class two years below. He taught at the University of Manchester; students included Steven Waling, and Trevor Griffiths.[1]
Harold Massingham lived in Mexborough, and published three volumes of poetry in 1965, 1972 and 1992.[2]
His work was published in The New Yorker,and Alhambra Poetry Calendar.
Under the pseudonym ‘Mass’, he set crosswords for national newspapers and magazines for more than 30 years.[3] He also compiled chess puzzles.[4]
Awards
Work
Poetry Broadsheets
- Doomsday
- The magician, Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1969
- Seafarer
- Wanderer
Poetry Books
- Black Bull Guarding Apples. London: Longmans. 1965. [5]
- Frost Gods, MacMillan, 1972
- Sonatas & Dreams, Littlewood Arc, 1992
Anthology
External links
References
- ^ Mike Poole & John Wyver, Powerplays: Trevor Griffiths in Television, 1984, London: BFI Publishing, p.12
- ^ Ian McMillan, Vernon Scannell, Yorkshire Post, 23 November 2007
- ^ Jonathan Crowther (2006) A-Z of Crosswords, Collins ISBN 978-0-00-722923-9, ISBN 0-00-722923-2
- ^ [1]
- ^ Chris Jones, Strange likeness: the use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry, Oxford University Press, 2006
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Massingham, Harold |
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Mass |
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25 October 1932 |
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13 March 2011 |
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